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3.2 Data Collection
In the process of collecting the data, this thesis uses several books as the source of the data. The main source of the data is taken from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov s
Lolita this novel as the primary source data in this thesis used to obtain the moral values found from the main character especially sentences from the novel to take down notes
and composes in her thesis. The secondary book writer finds all data from the library or from internet and get data from lecturer too. The writer chooses some important data
concerned about moral values in the literary work. All of data are read carefully by the writer to find out the suitable relation with her research.
3.3 Data Analysis
When all the data collected, the data will be analyzed to get what the writer want and has been planned in the object of this thesis. Writer has some steps to analyzing this
research. First, writer read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov as the object of this research. The writer takes some sentences or quote that supports an analysis. There are two
methods are commonly used, an intrinsic approach and extrinsic approach. A library research is applied in collecting some data to support the analysis. The Writer collecting
data from some data to support the analysis from the related books which got from library by online sources and some related source. After data collected and analyzed the
object with used descriptive analysis method. Then writer get the conclusion of this research.
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Researcher Source of Data
Novel Lolita Data
Selection Quotations
Conclusion
Analysis Descriptive
Qualitative Interpretation
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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1. The Main Character 1. Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert is born in Paris, France, to an English mother and a Swissfather, of French and Austrian descent. His background is purely upper class: his
father owns a resort hotel on the Riviera, and he is constantly surrounded by its rich patrons. He is white, handsome and of the privileged sex. He is educated in an English
day school as a boy, then a lycée the second stage of secondary education in France in Lyon, before attending college in both London and Paris. First in psychology and then
he studies English literature, and he is a master of language. Language is an important tool in his manipulation of those around him as well as the reader he dazzles with his
clever wordplay and the random insertion of French, German, and sometimes Latin into his speech. He moves to the States in 1940. Humbert childhood is very pleasant, even
though his mother has been died but his family loves him too much.
When he is in thirteen years old, he meets Annabel, the first Lolita and they love each other. First time Humbert and Annabel just talked peripheral affair. She wants to be
a nurse and Humbert wants to be a famous spy. His relationship with Annabel, his coeval, whose image was to shape his love map and to be forever imprinted upon his
mind: We loved each other with a premature love, marked by
a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives Nabokov 1970, 18.
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Humbert spends his time with Annabel, but they cannot be a mate as other slum children because they are intelligent European preadolescents children. Humbert always
met Annabel at the night. After that four months later Annabel died because her typhus in Corfu. His childhood love makes him frustrated. He only likes girls in 9 until 14 years
old and call them nymphet . Since then, he has been obsessed with the particular type of girl Annabel represents. He marries adult women in an effort to overcome his craving
for nymphets, but the marriages always dissolve, and the longings remain. Despite his failed marriages, his mental problems, and his sporadic employment, Humbert still
attracts attention consistently from the opposite sex, though he usually disdains this attention.
He loves Lolita, a girl in 12 years old because he has been frustrated with his childhood love. Loving a woman under mutual age is so contrat to community belief. It
is supposed against th law because people have an agreement that seventeen is regarded grown up for a woman. yet, Humbert s love orientation to a girl of twelve is a sign of
moral deviance whatever the reason will be.
2. Dolores Haze Lolita
Lolita is the object of Humberts love, a young girl who epitomizes the seductive qualities of the nymphet. Though she seems to like Humbert at first, over time she grows
irritated with him and defies his authority. Lolita is simply a stubborn child. She is neither very beautiful nor particularly charming, and Humbert often remarks on her
skinny arms, freckles, vulgar language, and unladylike behavior. Lolita attracts the depraved Humbert not because she is precocious or beautiful, but because she is a
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nymphet, Humbert s ideal combination of childishness and the first blushes of womanhood. To non pedophiles, Lolita will be a rather ordinary twelve years old girl.
Her ordinariness is a constant source of frustration for Humbert, and she consistently towards his attempts to educate her and make her more sophisticated. She adores
popular culture, enjoys mingling freely with other people, and, like most prepubescent girls, and has a tendency toward the dramatic. However, when she shouts and rebels
against Humbert, she exhibits more than the frustration of an ordinary adolescent: she clearly feels trapped by her arrangement with Humbert, but she is powerless to extricate
herself. She is an innocent, though sexually experienced child of twelve. Humbert forces
her transition into a more fully sexual being, but she never seems to acknowledge that her sexual activities with Humbert are very different from her fooling around with
Charlie in the bushes at summer camp. By the end of the novel, she has become a worn- out, pregnant wife of a laborer. Throughout her life, Lolita sustains an almost complete
lack of self-awareness. As an adult, she recollects her time with Humbert dispassionately and doesn t seem to hold a grudge against either him or Quilty for ruining her childhood.
Her attitude suggests that as a child she had nothing for them to steal, nothing important enough to value. Her refusal to look too deeply within herself and her tendency to look
forward rather than backward, might represent typically American traits, but Humbert also deserves part of the blame. Humbert objectifies Lolita, and he robs her of any sense
of self. Lolita exists only as the object of his obsession, never as an individual. The lack of self-awareness in a child is typical and often charming. In the adult Lolita, the
absence of self-awareness seems tragic.
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4.2. The Analysis of Moral Values through Main Characters in Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita
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